Comments on: Escape From New York… Again

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:46:22 +0000

The changes SUCK!

A female President?
(Why does everything have to be PC?)

Private security instead of a Government Police Force?
WEAK!

LESS destruction to NY to skimp on money?
Carpenter had A LOT less of a budget to work with than these idiots and he did just FINE!

"an exposé of an ecosystem"
REALLY????

Put THAT on your poster and see what your box office grosses are!!!

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:09:24 +0000

YES ESCAPE FROM CLEVELAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Longshanks

Longshanks — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:13:58 +0000

I must admit,I wasn't a huge fan of the original,but the Snake character is a classic 80's character that shouldn't be messed with,along with a lot of other 80's classics.I will say this though,I would be very interested in an above mentioned They Live remake,as long as they get the two leads casted correctly.And they have to have that epic alley fight as well,or they might as well not even make the movie.

By: Longshanks

Longshanks — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:13:58 +0000

By: dannyboy

dannyboy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:55:29 +0000

It was called Escape From L.A., but I get your point

By: dannyboy

dannyboy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:52:10 +0000

100 % BULL$^*#!!! I don't want yet another remake, reboot, or whatever the heck you want to call it. NOBODY other than Kurt is Snake. Don't waste our time with this crap, but give us what we want and make The Escape From Cleveland that was hinted at for a prequel with someone who looks like a younger Kurt. Seriously, I'm going to start writing going to the theaters off, if we can't get something original being made….. What's next an Ice Pirates remake?????????

By: Hippie

Hippie — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:10:59 +0000

I was sitting here wracking my brain as to who could play Snake! Butler would be decent!

Though I agree with worminthegrass. Why not just bring back Russell?

By: worminthegrass

worminthegrass — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:27:38 +0000

Kurt Russel is still in good shape. I think they should just make another Snake movie with Kurt. Let's see a movie about one of his heist that he gets betrayed on and he goes looking for revenge or is on the run.

By: EngraverKev

EngraverKev — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:58:23 +0000

I'd rather see Escape From Hollywood. Everyone gets out successfully unless they are a suit who works for tinseltown. There's a mindless Shoot-em-up I'd pay good money for. (Did I just end that with a prepostion? Didn't mean to.)

By: LSASlushoUS477

LSASlushoUS477 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:54:15 +0000

Am I wrong or did we not hear the same thing like a year and a half ago with Gerod Butler as Snake?

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:55:54 +0000

“No designer clothes wearing, tree hugging, drum circle playing, hemp wearing, girl friend feet rubbing, sissy man here folks. “

LOL

By: ojex

ojex — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:50:43 +0000

Im skeptical of this, but I love the original so…

By: hudson

hudson — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:29:49 +0000

i hope they dicide to make a sequel instead of a remake. i dont hate remakes at all but a sequel would be better. but anyway im going to watch escape from new york right now.

By: AirTalent

AirTalent — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:43:37 +0000

If you're gonna remake movies, make the ones that perhaps never had the finished product that the material required. But movies that have reached an iconic status? Leave them the hell alone! This is a ridiculous idea to remake! It's up there with current bad ideas like remaking Red Dawn! What's next? “Rebooting” Gone With The Wind? Pfft!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:52:59 +0000

I agree with you 100% on classic characters. That would be like recasting someone to play Tyler Durden or Jack Sparrow or Jason Bourne (which unfortunately might happen).

By: ogb139

ogb139 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:51:52 +0000

My god, I know movies haven't been around for too long but it seems like previous generations did not have to suffer through all these reboots and remakes. Another thing that's wrong with my generation I guess (no originality)

When will they get it? You cannot recreate the feeling and the look of these originals (THING, Escape...) with with your big name writers/directors and budget. Throwing money at a reboot/remake rarely works. It's not like Carpenter had a huge budget or amazing writers when he made these films. That's what's so special about them. New-age Hollywood will never recreate Snake or Mad Max.

Very discouraging.

By: JRose23

JRose23 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:21:45 +0000

There are classic movies. Most of the time a remake is unneeded, and often times the final product is worse than the original, but there's still a chance a remake can be good.

And then there are classic characters. You can't remake those. Kurt Russel IS Snake Plissken. It's his defining role. No one else could ever pull it off like him. It doesn't matter how good the final product of this movie is, it's central character will be weaker than the original.

You want to make another movie featuring the character? Great, call up Russell and get him back for another go (Escape From Earth, anyone?). But don't recast him.

By: Thomas_is_Epic

Thomas_is_Epic — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:59:17 +0000

So this is the movie that inspired Metal Gear Solid? That's my favorite series of all time, yet I've never seen this movie. Would be interesting to see Kurt come back as Old Snake.

By: Screen Rant

Screen Rant — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:21:31 +0000

“But thanks for the mention I just added Escape to my netflix queue.”

Well at least some good will come out of this.

By: ZombieHunter

ZombieHunter — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:18:35 +0000

Ironically, I played Metal Gear Solid before seeing this movie, so I always think of MGS when I hear the name Plissken, even though both Solid Snake and Iroquois Pliskin were both inspired from this.